Rye Patch Nevada

Historical Record

Rye Patch Nevada was a 20-acre unpatented placer claim in Pershing County, Nevada. Located in the world-famous Rye Patch nugget-shooting district, this claim offered proven dry placer gold potential.

The Adventure Claim is a 20-acre placer mining gold claim in the highly sought Rye Patch area, an area known for its large, bountiful anduniquegold nuggets!Find your own fortune with just a metal detector, a classifier, and a shovel, anddig up gold nuggets as large as your thumb nail!

Hidden under Majuba Mt. and the Antelope Range lie large quartz and tourmaline veins laden with gold and silver. While a concerted effort was made to find these rich, hidden gold veins in the roaring 20's, still no one has found it to this day.Yet, large gold nuggets find their way to the surfaceevery year, washed into the valley from the exposed peaks of the mountains. Many flocked to the base of these mountains to bring themselves from rags to riches during the Depression, and for nearly 90 years after, the tradition continues today with many walking away with their own little fortunes in their hands and pockets!

The local geology can easily be seen just by looking at the ground - gobs of quartz and tourmaline can be picked up in large chunks, with plenty of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and arsenopyrite running together with the minerals -excellent groundsfor finding therarechevron gold nuggetsthat characterize the Rye Patch area andplentyof gold dust!

The three claims lie in three well-separated areas, targeting three separate old river flows from the mountains. All three areas show the same characteristics: plenty of old water flow and tons of quartz and tourmaline on the surface.

Claim Features (Historical)

• 20 acres of unpatented placer ground
• Located in Nevada, Pershing County, Rye Patch District
• Primary commodity: Gold
• Historic mining area with proven mineral potential
• Sold through Mountain Man Mining™